Year: 2007

The trial of a past PCC student, George Wood Pigman IV, charged with the 2005 slaying of his alleged girlfriend Eimi Yamada, has been postponed and will likely be moved.

An improved online edition of the Courier at a brand new home on the Web – pcccourier.com – was launched Aug. 21.

With PCC awakening from its summer vacation slumber, the campus was again flooded with a vast sea of new faces. From meeting people to finding classes, even the most eager and hopeful could have had a hard time starting at a different school.

A PCC student Liya “Jessie” Lu, 31, has been missing for almost three weeks, according to a missing person’s report filed Aug. 14 with the San Gabriel Police Department.

California Teachers Association representatives arrived at PCC on Aug. 30 to defend their position as union for Pasadena City Colleges’ teaching staff.

Students are finding themselves once again struggling to get to their classes from over filled parking lots. Students were left shocked by police blockades and a forty-five minute “adventure,” as some called it, in looking for a parking spot.

As of Tuesday, PCC enrollment for the Fall semester is up 3.5 percent from 2006.

Pasadena Water and Power is planning a four-hour shutdown of electrical service to a portion of the campus on Friday night, September 7 at 11:59 pm.